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Since Sandy Bridge-E launched back in November we have had the pleasure of reviewing a couple of really outlandish motherboards like the ASUS X79 Rampage IV Extreme and ASRock X79 Extreme9. While the LGA2011 platform is ideal for such high-end...

I'd like to thank our friends at Gigabyte for providing the GA-X79-UD5 motherboard for our review today. This is the second X79-based motherboard I've evaluated, and this platform continues to impress me with solid gaming and overall performance...

The GIGABYTE X79-UD5 motherboard is a very reasonable priced motherboard, especially compared to its competition. At a price of $279.99 after mail-in-rebate, it really makes it difficult for others to compete with GIGABYTE's offering. The X79-UD5...

This crop of boards is tough to compare, because the four have a lot in common. They all have similar specs (predictably), boast good looks, feature UEFI BIOSes, and posted very similar scores in our benchmark tests. Thus, looking at the pros and cons...

In terms of aesthetics and visuals, we think the Gigabyte X79-UD5 looks great with its black PCB and contrasting blue and gray color scheme. The board layout is very good, there’s ample space to work with, and we had no troubles with a behemoth...

Conclusion The Gigabyte X79-UD5 is primarily marketed at users placing features, stability, multithreaded/content creation workloads and memory capacity above all else. When evaluating it with these criteria it does very well and has all the features...

The Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 really did impress us every step of the way during our testing period. At first, it didn't clock as well as we had hoped, but looking closely at the hardware design, we knew this board was meant to be an overclocking-centric...

At $324.99 US the UD5 isn't a cheap board and going over it, that comes as no surprise as it's a really nice offering. From the visual perspective, the UD5 looks fantastic; the matte black that GIGABYTE uses continues to be one of the best...

To complement the new Sandy Bridge-E processors, Gigabyte has released a full line up of X79 motherboards with its usual UD3, UD5 and UD7 variants plus a top-shelf G1.Assassin2 model.The GA-X79-UD5 we recieved for testing this month has a huge E-ATX...

Our flagship motherboard comparison announcement was answered with an interesting selection of models, along with a bunch of “not ready yet” responses. Today we examine a few samples from companies bold enough to step up to the plate during launch...

As we previously stated in the introduction, I was a big fan of the X58-UD5 and longed for the X79-UD5 to give similar satisfaction. While there is no doubting it is a good motherboard, it's not quite got the same appeal.Take for example the...